Shared Login and the Mac

Anthony Holmes  29 May 2009 05:30:26 PM

A while ago I blogged about the Notes 8.5 Shared Login capability that ensures that your ID file is usable if you have logged into Windows with appropriate credentials (without requiring a separate password). My recollection from the documentation was that the feature wasn't available on the Mac and Linux versions of Notes: which is unsurprising, since it uses key Windows capabilities.

So when I got a Macintosh recently, I was surprised to see that it offered to store my password in the Macintosh Keychain. Kudos to both Apple for building this capability into the  OS and the people who produced the Notes version for Mac for taking the time to use it: it's a feature that 'just works'. No more prompts when starting Notes on my Mac either. Perfect.

(That only leaves Linux.)

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